Mike: What about the cake?

迈克：蛋糕准备好了吗？

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What about the cake?

蛋糕怎么样？

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The girls are on their way to Tesco to buy the ingredients for the cake and Robbie wants to clarify what the excitement is all about.

女儿们去泰斯克采购做蛋糕的原料，罗比将澄清风波的真相。

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But is your question about whether a person should ever ask to take food home? (To which the answer is: probably not, although you can drop hints about the coffee cake and see what happens.) Or are you wondering about how you should have behaved once someone did pose that question?

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